Latest MS804 speculation involves a meteorite.There is a new theory on why Egyptair crashed, and Donald Trump was in such a hurry he missed it.

Numerous media outlets around the world have reported that a meteor fell apart and bits of it may have hit Egyptair. "Russian military advisers warned aircraft it was coming.”

“A TERRIFYING new theory tragic Egypt Air flight MS804 was hit by fragments of a disintegrating meteor has been put forward,” the Daily Express and others report.

“A massive space rock weighing up to 10,000 tonnes, and travelling at a startling 67,000 mph broke up in the Earth's atmosphere on Tuesday and fragments of it were still falling to Earth at around the time air traffic controllers lost contact with the doomed Paris to Cairo plane carrying 66 people last Thursday,” the Express said.

A Russian unofficial publication said: “An intriguing Ministry of Defense (MoD) report circulating in the Kremlin today is strongly suggesting that the 19 May crash of EgyptAir Flight 804 over the Mediterranean Sea was due to its being struck by a debris fragment from a large meteorite that first encountered our Earth’s atmosphere on 17 May over North America, broke into numerous parts with one large piece falling on South American on 18 May, and left a debris field so large the Aerospace Defence Forces (ADF) issued a warning to all S-400 missile commands operating in Syria to be on the alert for “false positive readings”. [Note: Some words appearing in quotes are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]”What Does It Mean

Some reports say data detectors were alerted to smoke and the pilot radioed that he was trying to fight a fire.

There is no way of knowing, at least not now, whether a fragment of the meteorite could have caused the crash.

President Lyndon Johnson wanted to step up the war in Vietnam, and the U.S. Navy gave him exactly what he needed.

An alleged attack by the North Vietnamese Navy on Aug. 2. 1964 justified sending hundreds of thousands of American military to Vietnam.

Questions were raised about what really happened and later historians determined the North Vietnamese had done nothing.

Imagine what a President Donald Trump’s Tweet would have been like.

“Commie North Vietnamese attack brave American sailors. Nuke them. Show them what real power is.”

And it would probably have gotten the same reaction LBJ’s phony declaration did.

Just this week shortly after an Egyptian Air Airbus crashed en route from Paris to Cairo a tweet was posted by Trump, or more likely one of his Twitter staff.

CNN reported Trump said: "Looks like yet another terrorist attack. Airplane departed from Paris. When will we get tough, smart and vigilant? Great hate and sickness!"

Hillary Clinton waited six more hours before saying the Egyptian government feared it was a terrorist attack.

“It does appear that it was an act of terrorism — exactly how, of course, the investigation will have to determine,” Clinton told CNN.President Obama made no immediate statement, though his spokesman said the U.S. would provide any help it could.

American TV media met to praise Trump, including Chris Matthews, perhaps the most popular MSNBC anchor.

They said that even though there was no information to back up his claim he showed his willingness to say what people are thinking.

How things have changed in 50 years.

We used to fear “the finger on the button would be German…” That lyric appeared in a song, the “MLF Lullaby by Tom Lehrer, after the creation of NATO.Now the fear is that the button-pushing finger will be a reality TV show host who has never served in the military, not even in government.

He dodged the draft during the Vietnam War to spend time with girl playthings while married.

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AP hired me away in 1973 after a couple of years with UPI and I worked with them until 2008. Assignments have included being the leading AP reporter on the Columbine Massacre, bureau chief in Alaska during the construction of the trans-Alaska pipeline, and covering coups, wars and other events overseas for 14 years.

I was top editor on the AP news desk in New York during the last years of the Vietnam War before going to Alaska. From Anchorage I went to Johannesburg to cover apartheid. I spent 14 years in Africa, throughout the continent, and covered the assassination and cremation of Indira Gandhi.

Once back in Colorado I covered the Army and Air Force, Columbine, skiing, arts and the environment. Worked on both sides of the Continental Divide, Denver and Grand Junction.

My main interests are history and arts, especially classical music, theater and opera.

Graduated from William Jewell College with a B.A. in history.

In addition to my travels as a writer I was a military brat and moved around with my father and mother.

My wife and I have twins, who keep us up-to-date on new trends.

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